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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:12:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070426171242.GP3468@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070426094427.6f5bfc4c.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:44:27AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>...
> > IMHO the default should be that users report problems with distribution 
> > kernels to their distribution and problems with ftp.kernel.org kernels 
> > to either linux-kernel or the kernel Bugzilla.
> 
> s/linux-kernel/the appropriate mailing list/ please :)
>...

Yes, in an ideal world.

But a user reporting an Oops might not even know where the problem lies.

And a user reporting a networking bug to linux-kernel hasn't really done 
any mistake. Forwarding bugs to the right people (as Andrew does and I'm 
sometimes doing) is actually an easy part of bug handling.

> ~Randy

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-26 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-04 11:26 MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 11:29 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 12:33 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-04 13:02   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 14:57     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 16:33       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-04 16:38         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 16:45           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-04 14:48   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-04 15:02     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 15:50       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 16:00         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Alan Cox
2007-04-04 16:06           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Marcel Holtmann
2007-04-04 16:38           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 17:00             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Takashi Iwai
2007-04-04 17:48               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-04 18:01                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-04 19:12                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-05  0:08                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-23  9:33             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-23 11:24               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell
2007-04-23 11:52                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-23 12:00                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-23 12:32                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26  1:18                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Andrew Morton
2007-04-26 10:03                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell
2007-04-26 10:41                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 13:54                         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 14:55                           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 16:00                             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Alan Cox
2007-04-26 16:45                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 15:41                           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Randy Dunlap
2007-04-26 15:52                             ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 16:44                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Randy Dunlap
2007-04-26 17:12                                 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-04-26 19:37                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 19:43                                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 20:02                                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 20:24                                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 21:51                                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 22:01                                         ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Adrian Bunk
2007-04-26 22:07                                           ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-26 22:28                                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 20:11                                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-26 22:24                                     ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Gene Heskett
2007-04-27  9:06                                       ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Stefan Richter
2007-04-26 22:03                               ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-27 21:06                                 ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rene Herman
2007-04-28 21:03                                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-23 23:46                   ` MODULE_MAINTAINER Rusty Russell

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